TELEGRAM TO A. D. METELEV[1]

Written:Written on August 9, 1913Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

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MetelevGubernia Executive CommitteeVologdaCopy to Sammer and Eliava

Thereis no need to come to Moscow to report. You must
remain in Vologda and strain all efforts for immediate,
relentless reprisals against the whiteguards, who are clearly
planning treachery in Vologda, and for preparations for
defence.

Refutethe lie about Archangel by letter.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Afterthe capture of Archangel by the Entente troops on August 2,
1918, a group of functionaries of the Archangel Gubernia
Executive Committee went to Vologda to report to M. S. Kedrov on
the situation on the Northern Dvina. In Vologda, they learned of
L. D. Trotsky’s order, which demanded that the functionaries
who had left Archangel should be regarded as deserters and tried
by the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal. The group of Communists,
outraged by this order, since they were not directly to blame for
the fall of Archangel, sent a request to Lenin and Sverdlov to be
allowed to come to Moscow and report the truth about the events.
In reply, Lenin seat the telegram published here.